Pruning Hot Pepper Plants for HUGE YIELDS in the Alberta Urban Garden
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The pepper pruning experiment continues. We take over a few weeks after the first pruning and complete the second, third, and fourth round. The plant continues to react well to the pruning and has started to try to flower all of the time. The pruning will help keep the compact plant bushy and help it produce huge yields! After the plant hit maturity it has started to fork at the nodes we would have pruned back to. This is a common reaction as the flowers are produced in the same area. The Super Hungarian Hot pepper is an ideal candidate for this pruning as the fruit is plentiful but not large. The plant has been responding well to pruning! Even though the plant has started to fork itself we will continue to prune it until it goes outside in the summer. This will continue to focus the plants energy on root development and strengthening the stalk structure. I will continue to remove the flowers ever day or so to prevent the plant from expending a lot of energy in the house on fruit production. Once the plant goes outside in the summer all bets are off. No more pruning or flower removal. The pruning is not nearly as easy as the first round. The plant is forking itself out changing the focus of the pruning. My goal now it to continue to work on essential framework of the plant to keep it low and bushy. This is predominantly done by focusing on two things. 1. Targeting branches that are going towards the center of the plant. those branches will shade and crowd the plant increasing the risk of disease and reducing production 2. Keeping an uniform canopy. Some branches spur new growth faster then others. If you remove them the central core of the plant will get stronger. You want to make sure when you cut back the node you cut to is pointing away from the center of the plant so you don't create a cross branch that will need to be removed. I highly recommend this approach for all of your sweet and hot peppers. Most of the plants should react extremely well to this! Make sure to start your peppers nice and early and then prune away with the tips I give here! I have lovingly called my garden the Alberta Urban Garden. This channel is dedicated to Gardening and Brewing from our harvest. Please join us and join the conversation! Check us out on YouTube: www.albertaurbangarden.ca Google +: google.com/+StephenLegaree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertaUrbanGarden Twitter: https://twitter.com/northern1485
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Damn. I had an urban garden last year and grew some peppers successfully, zucchinis abysmally, and tomatoes just OK. But I had no idea how deep this goes, selecting for specific stems, hahaha. I did none of this. I guess this year, I will try.
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Hi, just subscribed. We live in interior northern BC. Thank you so much for this video, very informational. When do you suggest starting super hot pepper seeds inside? About beginning of December? It is nice to see a Canadian Gardner growing hot peppers, it's very difficult to find information regarding the peppers and growing in Canada. Where I live, the hottest pepper I can find a green-houses is birds' eye. We used to live in Alberta as well :-)
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Like your video.
Just a sincere heads up, the audio level is a bit low.
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What soil and nutrients did you use?
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What about the end result? How many peppers did it produce?
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just curious, I planted jalapeno pepper seeds and I have some that are a couple inches long but they look more like banana peppers when I ate it they're not even hot. I was wondering if young jalapeños peppers are usually not hot and they don't get their heat till they get full grown. thanks
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BEST PEPPER PRUNING VIDEO!!!
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Hey guys new pepper grower here. Do you need more than one plant to produce fruit? I have one ghost pepper and one scorpion, and neither one has produced any peppers yet. any help would be helpful
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It looks a little like they have too much nitrogen, they look healthy but a little too dark green, what fertilizer and or soil are you using? Do you know the ph?
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Hi, My husband made me a cupboard grow area in the basement. I will post photo on your FB page when my seeds germinate. Do you have seeds for banana pepper? Tnx. Edmonton gardener here.
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you gotta turn the volume on the mic way up
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Hey. From saskatchewan here.
Last year I grew habanero, thai, and hungarian wax peppers from plants I'd bought from greenhouses. It went very well and my favorites are still alive indoors.
I also frequented our farmers market and bought ghost, scorpion, and reaper fruit.
I used the fruit in sauces and canned them, but I also save the seeds.
Just before Christmas I started about a dozen ghost pods and scorpion pods. They're now little 4 leaf plants.
On dec 27, I seeded a bunch more and today, jan 3 I have some reaper, scorpion, and ghosts showing little sprouts.
My question is, will I have time to cut them back a couple times before they can live in saskatchewan?
First time growing super hots from seed.
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I saw this advice in a gardening video on youtube. Avoid pruning branches that are not woody. Because it will grow back forked.
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Seem i lucked out my pepper has 3 main branches 5" off ground level witch all branch out into two more branches all on its own.
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I have not any pictures, but two main stems after pruning are 3/4 inch in diameter. Plant is 3 feet tall. Have harvested 22 peppers so far and more are still growing. Been pruning for 40 years and it does work.to make stronger, fuller plants.
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good info, horrible sound quality
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How many leaves should I have on my plants before I consider trimming? Or is it based on overall height? I'd like to create a better, stronger trunk on my plants. And when trimming how much should I remove?
Btw, great video. Your plants look very healthy. I'd like my plants to look just as healthy. This is my first attempt at growing peppers, so I'm doing as much research as possible. -
All that continueing pruning is great for indoor growing and those that live in a warmer climate. But for those of us with a shorter growing season we want the peppers. Although I did some pruning with my bell pepper plants today per your vid. I also do a lot of cuttings in the winter of flower plants so its not like I havent done this before. This same method will work for most plants especially cuttings started indoors or overwintered cuttings started inside . Some flowering plants that are pruned severely will not recover in a short growing season, since I mainly grow plants for hummers and to have flowers in prime flowering in august which is the best migration period at my place.
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Won't you have to pay a lot to heat the snow?
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So this doesn't really apply to peppers bought from a greenhouse at a fairly young age does it? This is more applicable to plants started indoors several weeks before transplanting them outside, right?
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